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Mark Berthelemy
Jul 14, 2015, 9:53:50 AM7/14/15
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Hi there,
I'm just investigating OppiaMobile for a social-enterprise client, and have a couple of questions:
1) Is it possible to access the course materials via a web browser, or is it just through the Android app?
2) How is the mobile app connected to a particular Oppia Django instance?
Thanks,
Mark
I'm just investigating OppiaMobile for a social-enterprise client, and have a couple of questions:
1) Is it possible to access the course materials via a web browser, or is it just through the Android app?
2) How is the mobile app connected to a particular Oppia Django instance?
Thanks,
Mark
Alex Little
Jul 14, 2015, 12:19:25 PM7/14/15
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Hi Mark,
Thanks for your message. For your queries:
1) Currently the course materials are accessed via the Android app only - basically because our users have very limited internet access, so they need to be able to access everything offline. However, for web browser access we have started very preliminary work on a mobile web enabled version of the courses too (see: http://demo.oppia-mobile.org/preview - register or login with Oppia app username/password), but as yet we don't have the quiz/video activities up and running on this and it's not yet been a priority development area for us - though of course as connectivity improves, or other phone OS's become popular, I can see that the mobile web browser version (perhaps HTML5 app to help with intermittent connections) becoming more important.
2) For the app/server connection, in the app settings there is an option to select an Oppia server url - so this connects to a REST API on the server. The app will send back the user activity information, quiz scores etc periodically (if/when a connection is available). So if you have your own Oppia django server set up, you could use the core version of the app from Google Play and just update the server url setting to point to your server. Alternatively you could have your own version of the app (with any customisations, logo/theme/functionality etc), which you could set to connect to your Oppia server by default.
I hope that helps and just let me know if you need any more info etc.
Cheers,
Alex
Thanks for your message. For your queries:
1) Currently the course materials are accessed via the Android app only - basically because our users have very limited internet access, so they need to be able to access everything offline. However, for web browser access we have started very preliminary work on a mobile web enabled version of the courses too (see: http://demo.oppia-mobile.org/preview - register or login with Oppia app username/password), but as yet we don't have the quiz/video activities up and running on this and it's not yet been a priority development area for us - though of course as connectivity improves, or other phone OS's become popular, I can see that the mobile web browser version (perhaps HTML5 app to help with intermittent connections) becoming more important.
2) For the app/server connection, in the app settings there is an option to select an Oppia server url - so this connects to a REST API on the server. The app will send back the user activity information, quiz scores etc periodically (if/when a connection is available). So if you have your own Oppia django server set up, you could use the core version of the app from Google Play and just update the server url setting to point to your server. Alternatively you could have your own version of the app (with any customisations, logo/theme/functionality etc), which you could set to connect to your Oppia server by default.
I hope that helps and just let me know if you need any more info etc.
Cheers,
Alex
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